This week, we turn to audio equipment. What percentage of your audio equipment purchases in the last 12 months has been at a brick-and-mortar retailer in your area?
Just received this issue the other day and it is a really nice effort - except for one detail: there are no Jazz releases reviewed! Not one? You couldn't muster a single review? This bugs me, not just because I believe that you have some fantastic Jazz writers on staff, including Thomas Conrad and Dan Ouellete (neither of whom has ever led me astray in any purchase I've ever made, I should add), but because I subscibe to your magazine to be regularly informed about new releases in the three genres you usually review.
I find it somewhat bemusing that JA brushed off the Chord amplifiers inability to meet it's power output specification - at any load resistance.
Admittedly JA measured about 500W/8ohms - more than enough for most any application - but the manufacturer claims double that and Paul Bolin's text claims "it is very conservatively rated at 1Kw into 8ohms".
If I bought a 100W amplifier and it only produced 50W I'd be a bit pissed off - yeah, it's only 3db extra but you've payed for that.